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Grab Your Audience’s Attention: First Impressions Set the Presentation On—or Off—Course
Author Mark Magnacca
This Element is an excerpt from So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience (ISBN: 9780137158263) by Mark Magnacca. Available in print and digital formats.Create an irresistible “Positioning Statement” that will make everyone want to know more ....
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Grabbing Your Audience’s Attention Immediately: If You Don’t, Your Presentation May Be Doomed
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an ecerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.The world’s #1 corporate presentation consultant teaches 7 proven techniques for grabbing your audience fr....
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Author Michael A. Roberto
This Element is an excerpt from Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen (ISBN: 9780131568150) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats.You can’t solve a problem you don’t know exists! Learn how leaders ca....
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Don’t Make Them Think!: Creating the Best Flow for the Elements of any Great Presentation
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.Guide your audiences inexorably towards action, by organizing your presenta....
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The Turtles vs Shrimp Dilemma: Conservation in Conflict
Author Anne Rudloe , Jack Rudloe
This Element is an excerpt from Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold (ISBN: 9780137009725) by Jack and Anne Rudloe. Available in print and digital formats.Inside one of this generation’s greatest environmental wars: Can endangered turtles and endangered shrimpers....
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Three Fast and Easy Ways to Edit Your E-mails
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.Simple, quick, foolproof ways to supercharge every email you write--and all your o....
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Writing E-mails That Have a Clear Purpose
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
Thie Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.Make sure every email has a purpose--and your message is instantly clear to everyo....
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How to Share Good or Bad News by E-mail
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.How to deliver good news more successfully--and deliver bad news in the most posit....
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Organize Your E-mail Before You Write
Author Claire Meirowitz , Natalie Canavor
This element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats.A practical, step-by-step plan for organizing emails that communicate effectively ....
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How to Guide Conversations Toward Extraordinary Results
Author Jurgen Wolff
This Element is an excerpt from Focus: Your Key to More Productivity at Work (ISBN: 9780137002566) by Jurgen Wolff. Available in print and digital formats.How to make sure virtually all your conversations and meetings achieve the goals you’ve set for them.We like to....
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How to Focus Your Time for Success
Author Jurgen Wolff
This Element is an excerpt from Focus: Your Key to More Productivity at Work (ISBN: 9780137002566) by Jurgen Wolff. Available in print and digital formats.Overcome your negative patterns for using time--and start using your limited time far more effectively.People h....
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Africa Is Richer Than You Think
Author Vijay Mahajan
This Element is an excerpt from Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think (ISBN: 9780132339421) by Vijay Mahajan. Available in print and digital formats.Africa: more consumers, more wealth, more opportunity for your business.The aver....
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Credibility: I’ve Lost It—Can I Rebuild It?
Author Sandy Allgeier
This Element is an excerpt fromThe Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back (If You’ve Lost It) (ISBN: 9780132082792) by Sandy Allgeier. Available in print and digital formats.A complete, realistic, and proven process for rebuilding lost ....
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Integrity Matters: Trust Is the Bedrock of Success
Author Alan Lurie
This Element is an excerpt from Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work (ISBN: 9780137007783) by Alan Lurie. Available in print and digital formats.Real insights for handling the professional, personal, and moral conflicts....
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Embracing Risk in Your Career: A Story of How to Make More and Worry Less
Author Wes Moss
This Element is an excerpt from Make More, Worry Less: Secrets from 18 Extraordinary People Who Created a Bigger Income and a Better Life (ISBN: 9780132346863) by Wes Moss. Available in print and digital formats.What it really means to see risk as opportunity: the u....
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Less Is More: The Proper Use of Graphics for Effective Presentations
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.How to make presentation graphics work for you, not against you or your aud....
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You’ve Been Laid Off: Now, Make a Plan!
Author Martha I. Finney
This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha I. Finney. Available in print and digital formats.Laid off? Perform “personal strategic planning” to stay on track, focused, and strong enough to....
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Whatever You Are, Be a Good One: To Get from Good to Great, You Must Learn How to Get Good
Author Stewart Emery
This Element is an excerpt from from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.Discover the power of becoming good at something you love to do!E....
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Start Your New Job with Confidence: Ideas for Success in Your First 100 Days
Author Martha I. Finney
This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats.Got a new leadership job? Take charge with confidence--no matter what happened in your previous pos....
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Make Sure You Have a Plan for Your Exit Before You are Laid Off
Author Martha I. Finney
This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats.Be ready: know what to say and do when they’re laying you off...what never to say and do...and what....
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Life Balance Is Fiction: Finding Your Passion Will Bring a Life Built to Last
Author Mark Thompson , Jerry Porras , Stewart Emery
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.As conventionally defined, “balance” doesn’t matter. Passion does. Lea....
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Doing What Matters: Why It Is So Damn Hard and So Darn Rewarding
Author Mark Thompson , Stewart Emery , Jerry Porras
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.Learn the four biggest obstacles to following your dream: then expo....
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Life Happens: Saving on College, Divorce, Hospital, and Funeral Expenses
Author Gregory Karp
This Element is an except from Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Really Want (ISBN: 9780132350099) by Gregory Karp.¿Available in print and digital formats.¿How to prepare financially for what might happen--so you won’t be blindsided if it do....
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How to Get Your Presentation Audience to Aha!
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.Before you deliver your call to action, make sure your audience will be ready to act on it!For your presentations to succeed in achievin....
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What’s In a Presentation for You? How to Focus on Audience Needs
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.The secret of presentation success: “WIIFY”--a relentless focus on what’s in it for your audience!Constantly ask the key question: “What....
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Finding Your Logical Presentation Flow
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.Create a natural flow for your presentation: help your audience follow you ....
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Capturing Your Audience Immediately (and You are Off to a Great Presentation!)
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.Create “Opening Gambits” that grab your presentation audience from the very....
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The Proper Role of Graphics in a Presentation
Author Jerry Weissman
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats.The #1 killer mistake presenters make with graphics–and what you need to do....
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Author Angela Davis , Si Kahn
Privatization has been on the right-wing agenda for years. Health care, schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons—all are considered fair game. Through stories, analysis, impassioned argument—even song lyrics—Si Kahn and Elizabe....
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Get Your Business to Work!: 7 Steps to Earning More, Working Less and Living the Life You Want
Author George Hedley
George Hedley, who turned $2,000 into a $50 million company in seven years, provides a perceptive new guide with a simple, real-world solution to running a business smoothly while allowing profits to flow in effortlessly. Get Your Business to Work! 7 Step....
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